Iswaran The Storyteller

The story was  narrated  to Ganesh by a  young  man, Mahendre by name. He was junior supervisor in a firm which offered on hire supervisors at various types of construction sites:factories, bridges dams, and so on. Mahendra,s job was to keep an eye on the activities at the work site. He had to keep moving from place to place every now and then as ordered by his head office: from a coal mining area to a railway bridge construction site, from there after a few mouths to a chemical plant which was coming up somewhere.

 He was a bachelor his needs were simply and he was able to adjust himself to all kinds of odd conditions, Whether it was an ill-  equipped an circuity house or a makeshift canvas tent in the middle of a stone quarry.But one asset he had was his cook, lswaran. The cook was quite attached to Mahendra and follo wed him uncomplainingly wherever was posted. He cooked  for Mahendra, washed his clothes and chatted away with his master at night. He could  endless stories and  anecdotes on varied subjects.